Well, that takes me back. I haven't seen a variant of that response in over 10 years. Although "Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Yahoo" in the last one I saw is probably fair comment in the case of what's left of the company formerly known as NZ Telecom.
On 31 March 2016 at 13:23, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:40:03PM +0000, > cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > > Greetings, 9fans! > > > > Your post advocates a > > (x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante > > approach to social networking. Your idea will not work. Here is why it > won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular > idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state > before a bad federal law was passed.) > > ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses > (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money > (x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks > (x) Users of Twitter will not put up with it > (x) Facebook will not put up with it > ( ) The police will not put up with it > (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once > ( ) Many users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential > employers > ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business > > Specifically, your plan fails to account for > > ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it > (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for social networking > (x) Open relays in foreign countries > (x) Asshats > ( ) Jurisdictional problems > ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of communications > (x) Huge existing software investment in Facebook > (x) Susceptibility of protocols other than HTTP to attack > ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes > (x) Extreme profitability of Facebook > (x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft > (x) Technically illiterate politicians > (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with Twitter > ( ) Outlook > > and the following philosophical objections may also apply: > > (x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever > been shown practical > ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable > ( ) Blacklists suck > ( ) Whitelists suck > ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored > (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? > ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses > ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem > ( ) I don't want the government reading my email > ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough > > Furthermore, this is what I think about you: > > ( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. > (x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. > ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your > house down! > > > hth, > khm > >
